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Supertonic 3 TTS dissolution and liquidation?
"When the startup dies but the weights live on in legal limbo."
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Supertonic 3, a high-quality text-to-speech project, is reportedly undergoing liquidation, leading to confusion over the future of its OpenRAIL-M licensed models. Developers are scrambling to confirm if the permissive licenses remain valid when the parent entity ceases to exist. It highlights the 'zombie tech' reality where open-source weights outlive the companies that trained them.
#tts#open-source#licensing#liquidation
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